PSYC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Brenda Milner, Frontal Lobe, Experimental Psychology
10 Oct 2018
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If you don"t know the structure you are studying or how they connect, then neuropsychology becomes phrenology. Introduction: phrenology discredited, you paste labels to areas. The brain is an information processing system. Different parts of the brain cooperate to give rise to cognitive function. Lobes are just territories and are arbitrarily named. Dr. penfield discovered that there is an orderly arrangement of the different muscle groups of the be very centralized in the prefrontal lobe. body: the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and vice-versa. The production of speech requires cooperation between many cortical areas in the brain. On the contrary to phrenology, which simply labels broca"s area, the scientific approach consists of realizing that the production of speech requires memory: example: to teach, one must: Articulate the information in the language that we. Organize the word units in the correct grammatical structure.
